METHOD OF DISPOSAL OF WASTE CONTAINING HEAVY METAL AND SEALING COMPOUND SUITABLE FOR THE DISPOSAL

摘要

(A) Heavy metal-containing wastes are kneaded in melt with (B) an alkali metal compound or an alkaline earth metal compound and (C) sulfur, or with (E) a sulfide, or with these along with (D) a salt of a metal of which the standard electrode potential is higher than that of the cation of the component (B) or (E), in the presence of a non-aqueous medium, and the resulting melt mixture is cooled and solidified. In the method of treating heavy metal-containing wastes, the heavy metals in the wastes are efficiently passivated, and the heavy metals thus passivated are not released from the treated wastes.